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@ElleryKlein When my son learns to drive, I am 100% installing a speed governor in our car, even if there is no financial incentive to do so.

@AmyHemmeter I agree. Winter Park was beautiful! We hit it right at sunset.

@DoBetterLaura Winter Park is my favorite stop! Though that may require waking up early from the West. The westbound trip was a blur for me tbh, I spent a lot of it napping.

We’re taking Amtrak from San Francisco to Boston! We departed Emeryville this morning. Can’t wait for the views ahead.

We arrived in Denver, CO behind schedule, but not too late to grab ramen across the street from Union Station. We’ll be in Denver visiting family for two days, before hopping on the next leg of our journey to Chicago.

Sunset on the Continental Divide, followed by a trip through the Moffat Tunnel.

The conductor just announced we will have no service for 2 hrs as we travel through the Colorado Rockies. Or as he put it “Get ready to go back to 1995.” We’ve got a good screen free project to keep us busy.

Lunch as we pull into Glenwood Springs, CO.

@Matt_Flm No. The California Zephyr is a pretty unplugged experience. No WiFi, no entertainment systems. We downloaded some movies/shows on our personal devices before we left, but we’ve mostly been reading, playing games, napping, and talking.

@DoBetterLaura Do you have individual entertainment screens as on a long-haul plane (with lots of movies and TV shows)?

@awesomerdotcom To each his own. I’m really enjoying this part.

@DoBetterLaura This trip (in reverse) was nowhere near as romantic as I had imagined. Like being stuck on an airplane for 4 days, except with more Mennonites.

@nilsohlmeier It appears that children can order off the adult menu. My son was a big fan of the vegetarian bolognese last night.

@DoBetterLaura The part which I remember most from doing the trip in opposite direction: your kid will start to hate the kids food menu soon, which repeats over and over again for every single meal (the adult meals aren’t as repetitive).

@FedUpWithBadAir Wow! That must have been quite the trip!

@DoBetterLaura NO WAY! We disembarked in Emeryville to catch a ship to Australia back in 2017!

@mirijulip Encountered this one recently. “Traffic isn’t just fine and normal, is fun and intellectually stimulating!”

Car brain has to start somewhere..

@bikeshopgirlcom We’re stopping in Denver for two nights, but if we went straight through, it would take 4 days & 3 nights, with a transfer from the California Zephyr to the Lakeshore Limited in Chicago.